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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I guess we've become a "weird" magnet.  I just wish folks wouldn't 
> consider all those weird transplants to be Californians.  And that 
> Southern CA wasn't how the whole state was judged.

Count your blessings. Bad publicity helps to keep the traffic down to 
merely outrageous.

I lived in the Bay Area for 25 years and never felt at home. There is no 
established culture. Still an experiment of transients searching for a home.

Yes, California is many places. I like the areas well north of the Bay 
Area. Well, not where you might get shot if you stumble into a patch of 
marijuana. And not the taxes and all the rules deemed necessary to keep the 
massive population under some semblance of control.